, 1887-06-18
STARING AT DEATH.
Trumble Found Guilty of Murder In
the First Degree.
A Packed Court House Hears the
Evidence and Speeches.
What the Ex-Deputy Sheriff Thinks
of the Verdict.
The Jury Reaches Its Result in Less
Than an Hour.


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formed their work, and Chas. v. Tumble,
the murderer of Chas. Miley, is doomed
to suffer the severest penalty of the law.
Outraged Justice is satisfied. At 1920
o'clock last night, exactly an hour after
Judge Maginnis had solemnly delivered
his brief and clear cut charge to the jury,
the twelve men filed into the court room,
and after the usual formaliues Clerk of
tho Court Murrin read the verdict which
will in all probability cause the Judge to
sentence Chas. V. Tumble to suffer the
extreme penalty of the law for the crime
be committed on the night of the 9Th day
of October, 1886.
As the terrible words, I'VE find the
prisoner guilty of murder in the first de.
gree fell from the lips of the clerk,
Trumble evinced no symptoms of either
nervousness, fear or surprise. and was
apparently the ealmest and most d~isinter
ested nan in the court room, coolly smok-
ing a clgar as he listened to the fatal
words sealing his doom.
The counsel for the defense broke the
stiffness which followed the reading of the
communication by giving notice that he
would file a motion for a new trial. The
judge simply nodded to Attorney Rowan
and ordered that the jury be discharged.
THE TRIAL.
All day long a constant stream of peo-
pie came to and went from the court
house, and at the evening session it was
impossible to gain an entrance to the
court room, and at the afternoon session
the magnificent opening argument of At
torney Stoll and the crafty pleadings of
Lawyer Rowan were listened to by hun.
dreds of people, crowds drinking in their
words from the pavement below. Mr..
Stolls arraignment of the prisoner, logical
deductions from the law and graphic de.
scription of the commission of the crime
was one of the finest orato1ical efforts
ever delivered before a Jury IN this terri
tory, while the prisoners counsel
placed his clients case before the
jury in its best possible light,
not neglecting, however, to in
dulge in an apparently unwarranted
wholesale abuse of the witnesses and
friends of the prosecution. The closing
argument of the prosecutor even eclipsed
his former speech, and was listened to
with breathless interest by the assembled
audience. The only materi i evidence in
troduced were the dispositions of Germs,
Ketchum and the prisoner himself. The
two former are now under indictment tor
perjury, and testified that they had heard
Mlley say that he would kill Trumble
when he was released, and believed that
the murdered man was killed accident
ally.
THE ON THE STAND.
Charles V. Trumble then testified at
length in his own behalf, saying substan-
TALLY that Miley was known to him as a
horse thief whose real name was Pete Gil
man and who was a member of a band of
thieves who had a short time previously
stolen a bunch of horses in johnson coun-
ty, exhibiting at the same time a letter
from the sheriff of that county describing
the missing animals and the supposed
thieves. He fatty contradicted the evil
dence of at least five witnesses for the
defense as to his maltrestment of the man
in his custody, saying that he had not in
a single instance struck, ierked or horse
whipped Miley and had never threatened
his life in any terms whatever. Trumble
finished by describing the killing as occur
ring in an entirely different manner than
seen and testified to by the witnesses,
stoutly maintaining that the shot which
e~xtinguished the light of Chas. Miley's
life was entirely accidental, and that he
would never have pointed his weapon at
the dead man had not the latter made
motions as though to draw a revolver
himself. The prisoner preserved the same
u%nwayeriDg stoicism on the stand that has
characterized his demeanor throughout
the trial, answering all questions in an
ordinary voice, although on one or two
occasions he spoke rather rapidly, and at
all times either stroking his heavy black
moustache or picking his teeth.
THE PRISONER INTERVIEWED.
AS has been stated in these columns,
Chas. Trumble is a very dark complex
toned, finely proportioned, broad should
cred man, a trife over six feet tall, and
would be noticeable in a crowd of a
thousand. He was dressed in a suit of
ths material called corduroy. a cheviot
shirt, and wore a black neoktie surmount
ed by a pin emblematic of his occupation,
it being a miniature gold pick and shovel.
When approached by a representative of
this journal he greeted the newspaper
man cordially. and the following converse
ton ensued:
Reporter-Mr. Tumble, l represent
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